UMBF vs. STL, VLY, FNB, CIT, CBU, KEY, EWBC, FHN, WAL, and WBS
Should you be buying UMB Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UMB Financial include Sterling Bancorp (STL), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), F.N.B. (FNB), CIT Group (CIT), Community Bank System (CBU), KeyCorp (KEY), East West Bancorp (EWBC), First Horizon (FHN), Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL), and Webster Financial (WBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
UMB Financial (NASDAQ:UMBF) and Sterling Bancorp (NYSE:STL) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
UMB Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Sterling Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. UMB Financial pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sterling Bancorp pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
87.8% of UMB Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.5% of Sterling Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of UMB Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Sterling Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sterling Bancorp received 127 more outperform votes than UMB Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.21% of users gave Sterling Bancorp an outperform vote while only 46.65% of users gave UMB Financial an outperform vote.
Sterling Bancorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UMB Financial. Sterling Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UMB Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, UMB Financial had 3 more articles in the media than Sterling Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for UMB Financial and 3 mentions for Sterling Bancorp. UMB Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Sterling Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that UMB Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UMB Financial has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sterling Bancorp has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sterling Bancorp has a net margin of 38.40% compared to UMB Financial's net margin of 14.59%. UMB Financial's return on equity of 14.30% beat Sterling Bancorp's return on equity.
UMB Financial currently has a consensus price target of $93.67, suggesting a potential downside of 5.75%. Given UMB Financial's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe UMB Financial is more favorable than Sterling Bancorp.
Summary
UMB Financial beats Sterling Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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